The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Том 1Alex. Lawrie and Company, 1804 - 506 страница |
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... entitled " Les Recreations Françoises , ou Nouveau Recueil de Contés à Rire pour servir de divertissement aux melancholiques , et de joyeux entretien dans le cours , les cer- cles , et les ruelles . " A Rouen , chés David Berthelin ...
... entitled " Les Recreations Françoises , ou Nouveau Recueil de Contés à Rire pour servir de divertissement aux melancholiques , et de joyeux entretien dans le cours , les cer- cles , et les ruelles . " A Rouen , chés David Berthelin ...
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... entitled " Les Recreations Françoises , ou Nouveau Recueil de Contes à Rire pour servir de divertissement aux melancholiques , et de joyeux entretien dans le cours , les cer- cles , et les ruelles . " A Rouen , chés David Berthelin ...
... entitled " Les Recreations Françoises , ou Nouveau Recueil de Contes à Rire pour servir de divertissement aux melancholiques , et de joyeux entretien dans le cours , les cer- cles , et les ruelles . " A Rouen , chés David Berthelin ...
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... entitled to a share of his attention . And it cannot rationally be supposed , that the avenues of information were more closely shut against him , than against suc- ceeding enquirers . Casauboni Notæ ad Laertium , p . 1 . n Quintilian ...
... entitled to a share of his attention . And it cannot rationally be supposed , that the avenues of information were more closely shut against him , than against suc- ceeding enquirers . Casauboni Notæ ad Laertium , p . 1 . n Quintilian ...
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... entitled to a place among their number . The life of St Columba , the Apostle of the Picts , has been written by various authors ; and , among others , by Cumin and Adomnan , natives of Ireland , and Abbots of Iona " . These bio ...
... entitled to a place among their number . The life of St Columba , the Apostle of the Picts , has been written by various authors ; and , among others , by Cumin and Adomnan , natives of Ireland , and Abbots of Iona " . These bio ...
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... entitled . ( Palæographia Græca , p . 42. ) His translations from Dionysius Areopagita are however commended by an excellent cri- tic : " Johannis Erigenæ , in exponendo Dionysio , industriam pauci omnino adæquarunt : studet ille ...
... entitled . ( Palæographia Græca , p . 42. ) His translations from Dionysius Areopagita are however commended by an excellent cri- tic : " Johannis Erigenæ , in exponendo Dionysio , industriam pauci omnino adæquarunt : studet ille ...
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